overstatement
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overstatement (countable and uncountable, plural overstatements)
- An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
- The story he gave was something of an overstatement of the facts.
- 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
- It would hardly be an overstatement to describe Drummond's next design as an outstanding British locomotive class, and possibly his masterpiece.
- The tendency to overstate.
- She had a knack for overstatement.
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